Helpful hints we’ve learned about life

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1. This is an approximation of my formula for making life changes (the result of a philosophical New Year’s Eve some years back) and it has served me very well: Don’t set yourself up to fail. Always set reasonable goals for yourself and reward yourself when you attain them. If you are trying to break a bad habit, don’t torture yourself over slip ups—just get on with it and berate yourself only as much as you must to keep yourself on track. It's the trend that matters.

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Somebody else do number 2! Something you've learned, maybe the hard way, that might possibly be helpful to others.

You catch more flies with honey, than you do, with vinegar.

Jumping to conclusions is a lousy form of exercise.

just about anything will bite you if you stick your finger in its mouth

Always have enough food to last the entire month.

Never come too close, the gravitational pull is usually to strong to resist.

It's a mad, mad world. It's the small, soothing rituals--such as brewing and drinking a cup of loose leaf green tea every morning--that can tether us to order when chaos threatens to break down our walls and sweep us away.

"I say let the world go to hell, but I should always have my tea."
— Fyodor Dostoevsky

Expect the worst, Accept the best. - me

Always expect the worst, and you will never be disappointed. - Peter Wastholm

"Speak softly and carry a big stick." - Theo Roosevelt

A few helpful quotes:

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. - Aristotle

If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music he hears, however measured or far away. – Henry David Thoreau

Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh. – George Bernard Shaw

People are not perfect. They will screw up, sometimes in really awful ways. It is the power of forgiveness, therefore, that moves mountains.

Great thread, by the way.

That when somebody says maybe, they mean no.

Making a habit out of getting at least 30 minutes of exercise every day is probably the best thing you can do to alleviate stress and anxiety.

Women can be extremely competitive and volatile when other women are involved. They like fighting dirty too.

Homer: Beer. Now there’s a temporary solution.